IDA Ideas Host Rhett Moeller spoke to Jacklyn “Jackie” R. Burhmann and Mikhail Smirnov, who discussed IDA’s evaluation of the military compensation benchmark for the Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation. Jackie and Mikhail conduct research involving labor economics, econometrics and military personnel policy in the Strategy, Forces and Resources Division of the Systems and Analyses Center, an IDA-operated federally funded research and development center. In this podcast, they explain how factors that dual-income military households face play a role in service members’ decisions to stay in the military or leave to join the civilian labor market. The U.S. military is an all-volunteer force, so it’s essential that service members are compensated at level that promotes retention decisions.
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